quick question

Hi

I was wondering if someone could help me, I am a first year student nurse and have been asked to ask an RN about intuition and how it affects their practice. Any response would be great :)

[Mike RGN]

When you know to put in that extra check on a patient but clinical obs say they are ok. You have a feeling about them.

It not scentific but it saves lives

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Always follow your instinct and listen to that little voice. If something "just doesn't seem right", most of the time it isn't.

[emmy]

Thanks so much for your replies.

:)

[LydiaGreen]

There was a really good article about intuition and health care in Reader's Digest about six to eight months ago. The article was about a study that was done to investigate this topic and the findings were basically that intuition was not really intuition but past experiences/past memories of similar situations in the back of your mind triggering you to do that extra check, run that extra test, etc. You might want to check that out.

[emmy]

Thanks for that

:)